Paste pot or jar.



G. A. SUHMITT;

PASTE POT 0R JAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 4, 1908.

941,278. Patented 'Nov. 23, 1909.

/ I I 1 mm 'ULNT STATES ATENT FICE.

CHARLES A. SCHMITT, 013 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE CARTERS INK COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF IVLASSACHUSETTS.

PASTE POT OR JAR.

To all whom it may concern:

3e it known that I, CHARLES A. SCI-IMITT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paste Pots or Jars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

My invention relates to an improvement in the construction of pots or jars for containing paste. In addition to the paste these jars customarily contain, also, an auxiliary receptacle or well adapted to hold Water, for as the paste dries it is necessary to moisten it before it can be used and the auxiliary receptacle or water well in the jar provides not only a very convenient reservoir for holding the water but also for holding the paste brush which unless kept in water is apt to become dry. When the pot or jar is full of paste then this auxiliary receptacle or well is held properly in place by the paste. As the paste becomes lowered in the jar, however, the water well is no longer supported by it. Accordingly it is necessary to provide some auxiliary support by which the water well will continue to be supported after the paste has become lowered in the jar.

My invention consists in an improved means for supporting the auxiliary receptacle or water well in the jar.

The objects of my invention are to provide a means of support which will act to hold the water well securely in place without danger of its becoming broken, permitting, however, of its being easily attached to the main body of the jar or easily removed should occasion require; a means of retention, also, which will not interfere with the proper application of the cover to the body of the jar or prevent proper access being had to the contents of the jar and the water in the well.

My invention can best be seen and understood by reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a paste pot in cross vertical section fitted with the means or device forming the subject matter of my invention. Fig. 2 shows the jar so fitted in plan. Fig. 3 shows the body of the jar in side elevation. Fig. l illustrates the form of auxiliary receptacle or water well ordinarily employed,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 4, 1908.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

Serial No. 430,734.

and Fig. 5 shows in perspective the clip which forms the essential element of my in vention. Fig. 6 shows in detail the manner in which the clip is applied to the body of the jar for holding the auxiliary receptacle in place.

Referring to the drawings :A represents the paste pot or jar of which a represents the body of the and a the cover.

A is the water well inside the jar. The cover screws onto the body of the jar by a thread a formed upon the outer side surface of the ar at the top end thereof. Especial attention is called to this thread by reason of its adaptability for assisting in the retention of a means or device B which forms the subject matter of my invention and which serves the function of retaining the water well A properly in place.

The means or devlce B comprises what may be termed a clip which extends from the outside of the body of the jar over the top edge thereof, thence downwardly where it engages with the water well to hold the same in place. The clip which I have provided has inherent in it certain peculiar characteristics of form and adaptability in its attachment to the body of the jar by which the clip will be prevented from accidental longitudinal or lateral displacement and will not interfere with the proper screwing 011 of the cover. Such characteristics and adaptability can best be understood by describing the clip in the light of the parts composing the same and the functions performed by these respective parts. In describing the clip attention is first directed to its portion Z) which when the clip is in place is adapted to rest upon the top edge of the body of the jar. From this portion 7) there depends a portion b which is adapted when the clip is in place to extend downward and alongside the outer and upper side surface of the body of the jar and through a cut a made in the thread a forming a protuberance on the body of the jar by which the cover is secured thereto. After extending through this thread the portion 6 of the clip is provided with lugs which flare outwardly at either side thereof and are adapted to lie beneath the thread a and act to hold the clip as against an endwise or longitudinal displacement. In orderthat the portions Z),

b of the clip may not interfere with the proper application of the cover to the body of the jar I prefer that a recess or slot a shall be formed in the top edge of the jar, forming a retaining bed in which the portion Z) of the clip may lie, this recess or slot being so a lapted that the upper surface of this portion of the clip will be practically lush with the surface of the top edge of the ja In this connection it may also be observed that by thus recessing this portion of the clip it will be prevented from a lateral displacement sidewise around the top edge of the jar body. Besides recessing the portion 7) or the clip a slight recess a may also be tor-med in the body of the jar for containing the dependent grip-forming end 7) of the clip, in addition to the incision or recess a formed in and through the thread as above noted. The recess or slot (0'' is, how ever, hardly necessary inasmuch as 1 have found that it a proper incision be made in the thread a through which this portion of the clip may pass, the clip by reason of its being made of thin metal will not interfere with the proper application of the cover to the body of the jar. Dependent also from the portion Z) off the clip, formed by bending the same, is what may be termed a gripping edge or shoulder Z)". This shoulder or edge may litly be called a gripping edge inasmuch as in the operation of the device when the clip is in place the edge 0 in opposition to the dependent portion 7 of the clip is adapted to tensionally engage or grip onto the upper inner corner edge of the top of the jar body, on which account the clip is practically self-sustaining in its engagement with the body of the jar. By the engagement of this edge or shoulder b with the body of the jar on the inside and with the portion of the clip engaging the body of the jar on the outside, the parts being connected by the interposed portion 6, the clip accordin ly will become bound to the body of the jar as against lateral displacement in a radial direction from the center of the jar.

From the shoulder or edge 6" of the clip there extends a portion Z)" which, when the clip is in place, is adapted to project inwardly from said shoulder or edge and over the upper edge of the water well, which fits snugly against the inside of the body of the jar at the point where the clip is located, and thence downwardly by a portion b in the manner of a dependent arm to bear yieldingly against the inside of the water well at or about the middle thereof, or at any rate some little distance removed from the top edge thereof. In this connection it is to be noted that the clip does not exert a binding stress upon the top edge of the water well where the well might be easily broken, being made 01: comparatively thin glass, but as said before, the engagement of the clip is well down inside the water well where by the yielding stress of the portion or arm 6* of the clip the water well will be held securely in place. In fact until the release of the clip by some positive action, or until the water well is slipped out from under the retaining arm of the clip the well cannot be moved longitudinally or laterally for, as before described, the clip itself is maintained against such displacement and the water well retained as it is by the clip, is held against a similar displacement.

The clip may be applied to the body of the jar for holding the water well in place by simply pressing the clip down over the top of the body of the jar and the adjacent top edge of the water well. llhen so applied it the )ressure be sul'licient the lugs on the end of the portion Z) ot the clip will ride over the rounding surface of the thread a and slip in below and behind the same when the portion of the clip may enter the in cision or cut made in the thread. At the same time the portion 7) of the clip will have entered the slot made in the top edge ol the jar body; the shoulder or edge 0 will. have become locked in behind the inner top edge of the jar and the portions 7)", 0" oil. the clip will have become extended over the top edge of the water well and down into the same, yieldingly holding the well in place, as before described. Another and more coin venient way of applying the clip to the jar for retaining the well, is shown diagrammatically in Fig. (3. By reason of their naculiar form and :ulaptability the llanges on the end of the portion Z) of the clip may first by the application of the clip to the jar be placed in position belo and behind the thread a with the portion 7/ in proper position to enter the cut made in the thread. With the clip so positioned, by pressing on the top thereof or portion 6 of the clip its shoulder or edge I) may be snapped back on the upper inner corner edge of the jar body when the portion Z) of the clip will enter the cut "formed in the thread; the portion t of the clip will become properly seated or recessed in the top edge of the body of the jar, and the portions 0', f of the clip will, respectively, extend over the top edge of the water well into the same to yieldingly bear against the inside thereof, the clip, in other words, assuming a properly operative position. When it is desired to release the clip for taking out the water well, such release may be obtained simply by reaching down into the water well and withdrawing the arm 6 from its engaging position, such operation tending to lift the shoulder or edge of the clip from its engagement with the corner edge of the jar when the clip may either be slipped off the end of the jar or the water well slipped out from under the retaining arm of the clip.

Having thus fully described my invention,

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. The combination with a pot or jar, of a receptacle within the body of the ar, and a clip caught over the top edge of the body of the ar and extended in part to engage said receptacle for holding it in place which clip extends in part also to cooperate with a portion of the body of the jar to be positively retained thereby as against displacement off said edge to the body of the jar.

2. The combination with a pot or ar having a protuberance thereon, of a receptacle within the body of the ar, and a clip caught over the top edge of the body of the ar and extending in part to engage said receptacle for holding it in place and which clip extends in part also to cooperate with said protuberance and be retained by it as against displacement off the edge to the body of the jar.

3. The combination with a pot or jar having a slot cut in the top edge of the body of the jar, of an auxiliary receptacle located within said body, and a clip caught over the top edge of the body of the ar at the point of said slot and fitting therein, said clip ex tending down inside the body of the jar to engage said receptacle for holding it in place and which clip also extends down on the outside of said body of the jar to cooperate with a portion of said body and be retained by it as against displacement off said edge.

4. The combination with a pot or jar, of an auxiliary receptacle located within the body of the jar, and a clip caught over the top edge of the body of said pot or jar to bear in part against the outside thereof and provided also with a shoulder yieldingly bearing against the inside of the body of said pot or jar at the top thereof by which said clip may become fixed to said body of the pot or jar and which clip also isprovided with means whereby it may engage with said receptacle and hold the same in place.

The combination with a pot or ar having a thread thereon, of an auxiliary receptacle located within the body of the jar, and a clip caught over the top edge of the body of the jar and extending in part to engage said receptacle for holding it in place and which clip extends in part also to cooperate with said thread and be retained by it as against displacement from off said top edge of the body of the jar.

6. In combination, a pot or jar having a thread formed on the body thereof by which the cover of the pot or jar may be secured thereto said thread having a cross-cut therein, an auxiliary recepatcle located within the body of the pot or jar, and a clip caught over the top edge of said body to extend through the cut in said thread and back of said thread, said clip having a lug or lugs on the portion of the clip located back of said thread and which clip is adapted in part also to engage said receptacle for holding it in place.

7. In combination, a pot or jar, an auxiliary receptacle located within the same, and a clip for holding said receptacle in place, said pot or jar having formed in the top edge thereof a recess for containing said clip and which clip is adapted to extend over the top edge of said pot or jar from the outside thereof, thence downwardly to engage the inside of said pot or jar at a point adjacent to the top edge thereof, thence inwardly to extend over the top edge of said receptacle and down into the same to bear against the inside thereof, and means whereby said clip may be positively held from endwise displacement.

S. A clip for holding in place a receptacle contained within the body of a paste pot or jar, said clip comprising a portion adapted to extend over and rest upon the top edge of the body of the jar, a portion adapted to extend down on the outside of said body of the jar and having thereon one or more lugs, a portion forming an abrupt shoulder or edge adapted to grip the body of the ar on the inside just adjacent to the top edge thereof, and a portion adapted to extend over and into the receptacle contained within the body of the ar to bear against said receptacle on the inside thereof.

CHARLES A. SCHMITT.

In the presence of- M. E. FLAHERTY, JOHN E. R. HAYES. 

